AU Payroll - Ability to apply work patterns to part time employees
Suggest the ability to apply work patterns to part time employees. For example, we have a part time employee who works 7 hours on Mon, 6 hours on Tues and 6 hours on Wed.
At the moment, if a Public Holiday falls on a Monday, it does not correctly work out hours worked.
The same happens if Annual Leave is taken; incorrect hours are calculated which affects AL accruals.
Hours worked have to be calculated and added manually.

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Geoff Bourchier commented
This is now available in NZ under the Employment Information Tab for Employees. There is now an option to add pay and work patterns.
I am not sure about Australia, but it would pay to check as the change was not widely promoted, and I found it by accident.
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Nancy Ibrahim commented
very important to select specific days for part time employees who works certain days in the week, which fall on public holiday.
As currently if (for example) the employee works on Tuesday & Wednesday and a public holiday fall in that week on Monday, the system automatically add the public holiday rate and payment, however he doesn't work on Monday! so I've to adjust it manually. -
Kelly Walker commented
Would also be helpful for FT employees, particularly trades that work longer hours x4 and a shorter day at EOW.
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Jackie Chalwell commented
this will be so timesaving if we can have this feature in Australia please
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Sheila Quarta commented
Agree. When staff apply for leave and during public holiday, we have to constantly do a manual split of hours between ordinary, Pub Hol and leave and this allows for mistakes.
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Anne McPhee commented
Agree. Every time there is a public holiday we have to go in an manually adjust the payslips of everyone who does not work a standard week. The Christmas / New Year period was a nightmare
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Lubi Thomas commented
Definitely need this feature ASAP!
We have multiple part-time employees working different days, and manually going through and correcting Public Holidays and Leave is very time-consuming. We need the same work pattern set up in Australian Xero! -
Alix Anderson commented
Definitely need this feature ASAP!
We have multiple part time employees working different hours/ days and having to manually go through and correct Public Holidays and Leave is very time consuming. We need the same work pattern setup in Australian Xero! -
toby france commented
critical and needed asap
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Lubi Thomas commented
Critical feature for our Part time employees. the lack of this option is causing a lot of back of house labour to ensure everything is correct, including when PH land on days other than Monday's and leave management etc. Please get this on line ASAP.
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Andrew Cameron commented
This feature would be so handy for our part time employees for the reasons already mentioned.
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Mackenzie Stratford commented
Critical feature we should have access to
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Nancy Ibrahim commented
this feature should be added for part time employees, XERO Australia.
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Justine Sheehan commented
Don't know why this isn't available Australia
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Cathy Wicks commented
Very Disappointing this feature is not available in Australia
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Emma Petrig commented
Xero needs to keep up with the various payroll obligations employees face.
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Daniel Thompson commented
This is a must have for us, it's a real pain dealing with payroll without it! And I understand the feature has been available in NZ for some time... https://blog.xero.com/nz/product-updates/nz-payroll-bolstering-product-new-value/
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Giovanna D'Rozario commented
Can't believe this option is available overseas but not here!
This is a business critical feature we need otherwise we will need to go with another payroll solution
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Warrick Dunn commented
Should be a basic feature of all accounting software. Its actually such a but pain every single payroll!
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Karyn Muscat commented
I actually can't believe that this isn't an option. I thought I must have been doing something wrong as I thought this would be just a basic function. Xero really needs to get this implemented...